So MJ is no longer
supported, and in its place, this thing called RF is used instead? I don't think I've ever heard of RF before. If any of you gents know of a good video that breaks down what RF is and/or also explains the differences between RF and MJ, do let me know. I could certainly stand to know exactly what is up with it.
Unrelated, I just found an infernal hive surrounded by glowstone while branch- mining in the overworld...
I've came across glowstone in the overworld myself (though for reasons I'm not aware of myself, I didn't mine any of it,
and instead dug the stone around it?) If I find it again (or find another), I'll be sure to keep an eye out for any beehives in or around it.
Not intuitive the 1st time through for sure. But, they are now low(er) power and not that difficult to make, so yes, experimentation is not a problem.
What's the issue you are having ? Is it with a specific machine ?
I
probably should have made this clear: The last time I messed around with those genetic machines, that was
months ago (at what I'm sure was a point before I had actually looked at a video that explained it as a whole and its machines individually.)
Anyhow, mostly... the confounding part about them... was mostly when you actually got into the stuff. Experimentation wasn't difficult, because the materials said experimentation process required... was never steep. You give them a little bit of power, you use some of those dozen or so spare drones you'll inevitably get from breeding to be used either for Liquid DNA, or for genetic material, then... you made stuff happen.
Here's what my blind, first (and only) experience was like: You melted drones, and you got Liquid DNA. You melt a queen, you got a lot more DNA, but then realize that queens aren't as replaceable, so you stop doing that. You stuck a drone in a machine that had a slot for a vial (the drone I believe was consumed) and the vial would (I believe) receive a genetic trait, though remain empty and not have any uses. That trait would have a quality level, and the vial could carry a number of uses, though obviously, in its current state, its useless either way until something happens.
(Here's where my memory starts to fail me. The further along I go, the less and less I can recall.)
You stick the DNA vial in another machine, and that machine would consume liquid DNA to refill it, so that it COULD be used, but the quality of the genetic code ended up dropping! So you figured that this would not do. You looked around, and found out that there's a machine that could fix that problem, so you made it, and did so.
Except that apparently, shenanigans were necessary to actually get the genetic code inside a bee (i.e. I have absolutely no clear idea what had happened back then to actually get it to work). I believe that when I did find out how to get it working, and after doing so, it turned out that the genetic code I had acquired in the vial was absolutely nothing special, and might not have actually been all that useful to begin with. So I'm like "Wow, screw this mess, I burned through that many bees for this?"
And I think that's how it went. I'm pretty sure that I hadn't actually touched, tested, and tried all of the machines, and given the time span between then and now, I'm also pretty sure that things were changed, and new things now exist.
